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Searching for understanding in world of Trump

By Michael Goldman

Updated:
08/10/2018 01:46:23 PM EDT

Please help me understand why President Trump recently praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un just days after the U.S. Intelligence community confirmed what the rest of the world already knew, which is that Kim is secretly increasing his country's stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Please help me understand how anyone can believe that the addition of millions of lethal, low-cost plastic guns makes us safer as a nation, especially when every other country in the world is reducing and limiting access to all deadly weapons.

Please help me understand how it can be that our nation's Attorney General Jeff Sessions seems oblivious to the constitutional concept of the separation of church and state.

Please help me understand how folks around the country aren't outraged that the media seem resigned to the reality that no matter what crimes Paul Manafort committed, the president is going to simply pardon his old partner in campaign crimes.

Please help me understand how this can be the 50th anniversary of the McDonald's Big Mac, and yet our current president, who has consumed more Big Mac's than all the previous 44 presidents combined, hasn't either declared either a national day of celebration, or called on the post office to issue a commemorative Big Mac stamp?

Please help me understand how Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Sanders Huckabee, and all Trump quislings on FoxNews can sleep at night.

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Please help me understand how the president is going to explain to the world what happened should one of his crowds ends up hurting, or even killing, a reporter during one of his anti-media campaign tirades.

Please help me understand how there can be a more despicable living, breathing human being than Alex Jones.

Please help me understand if there could possibly be a smarter, more articulate political campaign strategist in either major political party than Steve Schmidt, the former chief strategist for presidential candidate John McCain.

Please help me understand why no one in the press ever asks the president questions like what the capital of Montenegro is; how much is a loaf of bread; which supermarket asks for an picture ID before you can purchase butter; and list the 10 commandments?

Please help me understand why Trump used to take credit for low gas prices and a surging stock market but now that gas prices are rising and the stock market is stalling, the silence from him is deafening.

Please help me understand why it's not better to keep the historic name of Faneuil Hall, but also build next to it an adjoining edifice telling the story of the slaves whose legal sale into servitude helped fund its construction.

Please help me understand why President Trump needs assistance answering the very obvious question as to what kind of lawyer would possibly tape his client.

Please help me understand when people like Sarah Huckabee Sanders are going to be confronted by the press after they brazenly repeat the disproven canard that the Mueller investigation was initiated based on the Steele dossier, rather than by the drunken rantings to the Australian ambassador by Trump aide George Papadopoulos.

Please help me understand who is going to break the news to President Trump that the Federal Reserve Board is an independent entity.

Please help me understand how the company which makes the fabulous Junior Mints, the eclectic Sky Bar, and the billions of fabulous candy valentine hearts could possible go out of business

Please help me understand how a serial liar and fired Trump rump-swab Sean Spicer thought there was a possible audience for a book full of praise for his former employer.

Please help me understand how the number one example on insanity in all future textbooks won't be President Trump's alleged efforts to convince his legal team that if he could just sit down with Robert Mueller one on one, that he could convince him that his investigation is nothing more than a witch hunt.

And, finally, please, please, please help me understand how any elected official, let alone the President of the United States, could think they could get away with making a staggering 4,229 false statements in only 558 days in office.

Michael Goldman is a political consultant to Democrat candidates and a weekly contributor to this newspaper.

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